| Show Age Requirements Handicap Moab School Science Students After bringing home 24 out of 27 first place awards at atthe atthe atthe the regional science fair In Price this year the Grand county junior high school science department received an nn unexpected blow at the I district science meet at the Young University at Provo this week end They I were disqualified Two top science exhibits were entered from the M Moab ab school at the district meet But Dut for lor the first time the age limit was enforced on the senior entries Ninth I grade students and under were not eligible to compete for lor awards Instructor Larry Learning admits he did not accept the barring of his students meekly meek meek- ly It Is utterly ridiculous he said It Is the same Idea as barring child geniuses from froma a field because they are too young Mr l Learning said with such limitations bril bril- students for la lack k of challenge lose Interest He explained that at the present time there was no facility facUlty In Moab high school curriculum for lor mandatory science projects Those Interested interested inter Inter- interested ested enough Ito to construct projects on their own initiative will receive help he said However for most students stu students stu- stu I dents this is not ample They lose much motivation if U the project is is' not a requirement To make Mr Learning's disappointment greater h he he had hoped that his students would take first place at the district meet this year There was only one possible competitor competitor competitor com com- at the whole meet he said in comparison with the work his two student entries I had produced The least the Grand county schools could have made at the state meet w was was s second place he felt The two ninth grade stu stu- stu- stu dents from Moab entering the meet were John ruley Miley and Virginia Tipple Tippie Johns John's project consisted of ot jet plasma propulsion which would enable rocket ships to travel on much less fuel than presently US used The project was strictly designed for lor outer space use he explained the plasma gas gns was I by use of ot a series serles of ot 3 magnets forcing gas gns through the of ot the rocket thus producing motion in the opposite opposite op direction Virginias Virginia's project was a hydroponics garden Through such methods four or five times as much material material ma ma- can be grown in one one- tenth of the space usually required re required re- re Mr Learning said Hydroponics gardening has been used in Japan and atter at af- ter er World War II on Guam With the expected world population explosion it will become more and more important im- im important im he said Mr Learning Leaming said he was proud o of the way the students students stu stu- stu dents accepted their disqualification at the me meet t ruley lUley he said stated he had learned what he wanted to know know from his experiment and would go on to something else Miss Tipple will enter the state research reporting competition slated for April 17 in Logan Another student Kenny Maber will enter the competition a also sq if transportatIon transportation transportation trans is available he says HIs report is the evolution evolution evo evo- lution of Crater Lake take Mr Leaming Learning explained the ninth grade students would be allowed to compete in the research reporting meet No prizes are arc a at st stake ke he said Top prizes will be awarded pins only six or seven of which have heretofore been awarded |
